Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 162 / Wednesday, August 23, 2023 / Notices 57467 

Dated: August 16, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18141 Filed 8–22–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036435; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: San Francisco State University 

Native American Graves Protection 

and Repatriation Act Program, San 

Francisco, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San 

Francisco State University NAGPRA 

Program intends to repatriate certain 

cultural items that meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects and 

objects of cultural patrimony and that 

have a cultural affiliation with the 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The 

cultural items were removed from 

Humboldt County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

September 22, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Zay D. Latt, San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program, 1600 Holloway 

Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, 

telephone (415) 405–3545, email zlatt@

sfsu.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the summary or related records held 

by the San Francisco State NAGPRA 

Program. 

Description 

Eight objects of cultural patrimony 

were donated to the Tregenza Museum 

at San Francisco State University in the 

1960s and 1970s. When the Treganza 

Anthropology Museum closed in 2012, 

all the Native American items were 

transferred to the San Francisco State 

University NAGPRA Program. The 

objects of cultural patrimony are eight 

Wiyot baskets from the Northwest 

California Coast. They consist of two 

round bowl baskets and one twined 

eating bowl donated by Elsa Korbel in 

1968; one twined gift basket, one twin 

with knob lid, one twined open gift 

basket, and one twined cooking bowl 

donated by M. Molarsky; and one 

twined gift basket donated by the San 

Mateo Historical Society. 

In 1966, 45 unassociated funerary 

objects were removed by Robert 

Ostrovsky and Robert Schenk from sites 

CA–HUM–207, CA–HUM–208, CA– 

HUM–211, CA–HUM–213, CA–HUM– 

214, CA–HUM–215, CA–HUM–216, and 

CA–HUM-Butler Valley as part of 

archeological site documentation in an 

area along Butler Valley Reservoir, in 

Humboldt County, CA. These cultural 

items were stored in the San Francisco 

State College Anthropology Collection 

and subsequently became part of the 

archeological collection of the Treganza 

Anthropology Museum at San Francisco 

State University (TAM). Upon closure of 

TAM in 2012, the objects were 

transferred to the San Francisco State 

University NAGPRA program. The 45 

unassociated funerary objects are one 

spatulate hammer stone, one possible 

metate fragment, two shell fragments, 

and three worked chert pieces from CA– 

HUM–207; one stone mano from CA– 

HUM–208; one hopper mortar pestle 

from CA–HUM–211; one small hammer 

stone, one hopper mortar, and one small 

milling stone from CA–HUM–213; one 

small round stone, nine chert pieces, 

one possible bowl mortar fragment, one 

small hammer stone, one small mano, 

and one mano-hammer stone from CA– 

HUM–214; three soapstone pieces, one 

grey chert scraper, and 11 chert scrapers 

from CA–HUM–215; one worked red 

chert and one red chert scrapper from 

CA–HUM–216; and two groundstones 

from CA-Hum-Butler Valley. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological, 

geographical, historical, and other 

relevant information or expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the San Francisco State 

NAGPRA Program has determined that: 

• The 45 cultural items described 

above are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

• The eight cultural items described 

above have ongoing historical, 

traditional, or cultural importance 

central to the Native American group or 

culture itself, rather than property 

owned by an individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville 

Rancheria, California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in ADDRESSES. 

Requests for repatriation may be 

submitted by any lineal descendant, 

Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

who shows, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 

descendant or a culturally affiliated 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. 

Repatriation of the cultural items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after September 22, 2023. If 

competing requests for repatriation are 

received, the San Francisco State 

NAGPRA Program must determine the 

most appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program is responsible 

for sending a copy of this notice to the 

Indian Tribe identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: August 16, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18134 Filed 8–22–23; 8:45 am] 

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